Getting started
- OneSearch, the library's catalog, will search ALL of the library's resources including books, movies, scholarly journals, periodicals and more.
- Google Scholar - a resource for both scholarly and non-scholarly articles. If you are on campus, you will find links to scholarly articles in our databases.
- Library reference sources & encyclopedias - find background information to help you get started.
- Interlibrary loan - If Boatwright doesn't have it, you can request books, articles, and more from other libraries.
- Look at the library's research guides on different topics including sociology, literature, history, and more.
- Check out all the research databases in the library.
Remember- women, gender, and sexuality studies is very broad and interdisciplinary as a field of inquiry, so develop a search strategy by looking in databases that cover numerous subjects. Databases covering social sciences, arts, and humanities may offer relevant articles, reference sources, and more.
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Databases
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowCollection of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new windowIndex of core disciplines in women's studies
- LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new windowIncludes significant LGBT journals, magazines, and regional newspapers, as well as well-known LGBT books.
Interdisciplinary Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowComprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary resource containing a large number of peer-reviewed journals.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowResource of journals in humanities, social sciences, & mathematics
Humanities and Social Sciences Databases
- Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new windowBroadest resource of scholarly research on human cultural, social, environmental and political behaviors
- Education Research Complete This link opens in a new windowBroad and current coverage of scholarly research and information related to all levels and areas of education.
- MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new windowLiterature, language, and folklore from all regions of the world from the late Middle Ages to the present.
Encyclopedias & Reference Sources
Visual Arts and Film Databases
- ArtStor This link opens in a new windowDigital library of images from art, architecture, archaeology, decorative arts and design, and visual culture in general.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary streaming video collection of award winning documentaries, educational films, classic Hollywood movies, and world cinema.
Primary Resources & Archival Collections
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new windowPrimary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new windowDocuments relating to the role of women in movements throughout American history
- Everyday Life & Women in America c.1800-1920 This link opens in a new windowPrimary source material for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Women's Studies Archive This link opens in a new windowTraces the path of women’s issues from past to present—pulling primary sources from manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, and more. It captures the foundation of women’s movements, struggles and triumphs, and provides researchers with valuable insights, focusing on the social, political, and professional achievements of women throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new windowComprehensive bibliography of women's diaries and correspondence representing all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions and the famous and the not so famous.
- International Women's Periodicals, 1786-1933: Social and Political Issues This link opens in a new windowProvides an important resource to scholars interested in the lives of women, the role of women in society and, in particular, the development of the public lives of women as the push for womens rights grew in the United States and England.
- Women, War and Society, 1914-1918 This link opens in a new windowA collection from the Imperial War Museum (London) that includes charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs, press cuttings, magazines, posters, correspondence, minutes, records, diaries, memoranda, statistics, circulars, regulations and invitations, along with interpretative essays from leading scholars.
- Witchcraft in Europe and America This link opens in a new windowComprehensive collection offering a wide range of writings on the subject of witchcraft
